Have you heard about the corporation that plans to make a quick buck from the global disappearance of honeybees?

"A future without honeybees means a future of human pollination," according to a promotional video from BeABee Inc. "That's right: people trying to pollinate plants flowers and crops by hand. That's the reality we're facing, and you can get in on the ground floor. ... Don't miss out on what can become a $16 billion industry."

Are you outraged? Good. That's what Zeke Freeman is looking for.

"We were hoping to anger people, and we definitely did," said Freeman, co-founder of the Brooklyn-based honey producer Bee Raw. "And we got the attention of people whose attention we don't normally get."

If Internet users click on any of the links on the BeABee home page, they see a message reading, "BeABee Inc. doesn't really exist. But if we don't act now, they could." They're also given the option to order flower seeds, sign a pledge to provide more pesticide-free acreage for the bees, or donate to Bee Raw's Save the Bees Fund — which goes to nonprofit organizations such as the Xerces Society.

The social-media sting operation has been stoked by tweets from celebrities such as Samuel L. Jackson and Christy Turlington. It has also stung a few tweeters who protested that BeABee was a "messed up" or "horrible" idea.

Freeman said online traffic to his website has jumped almost 1,000 percent since the BeABee campaign started on Tuesday, and about 1,200 people have signed the site's pesticide-free pledge. "I would say we've been pretty darn successful," he said. But he doesn't intend to shut down BeABee Inc. anytime soon. Freeman said the website and the Twitter account will remain active, serving as a "monument and a reminder" that continues to sting ... our conscience.